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  • ATinNH

    Assistive Technology in New Hampshire (ATinNH) is a program housed at the Institute on Disability on the campus of the University of New Hampshire. ATinNH is funded as New Hampshire's state program on assistive technology under a federal law. ATinNH considers itself a public resource established to increase access to assistive technology services and devices in our state.

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  • Behavioral Health Payment and System Reform

    New Hampshire’s Bureau of Behavioral Health is developing a model to fund community mental health centers (CMHC) on a capitated, prepaid health plan basis, replacing the current fee for service system. Payment reform is being sought to make services more cost effective and to better meet the needs of eligible adults who are recovering from a mental illness and children who are experiencing a severe emotional disturbance. In June 2011, a 1915(b) Medicaid Waiver application will be submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, requesting that BBH be able to establish this prepaid health care system for reimbursing community mental health services, with a target date of December 1, 2011 for implementing the new payment system.

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  • Facilitated Communication (FC) Skill Builders

    With the support of Pascal Cheng from the Howard Center in Vermont, individuals who express themselves through Facilitated Communication (FC) get together to learn new skills, make new friends, see old friends, and stay in touch with the latest FC technology to support their expression.

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  • Innovation Facilitators

    As a centralized resource for training, process facilitation, and technical assistance, the mission of Innovation Facilitators (IF) is to advance the standards of excellence in person-centered planning through the support of practitioners, persons with disabilities, families, and personal support teams.

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  • New Hampshire Public Mental Health Consumer Survey

    In fall of 2007 the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Behavioral Health contracted with the Institute on Disability (IOD) at the University of New Hampshire to conduct the New Hampshire Public Mental Health Consumer Survey Project. The project, now wrapping up its second year of survey work, is part of a federally mandated annual survey of the nation’s Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC). With support by the project’s advisory board, the IOD and the UNH Survey Center conducted and analyzed findings for a consumer satisfaction survey of adults, youth, and family members of youth receiving services from New Hampshire’s 10 community mental health centers. Individuals were asked for feedback in a number of areas, including: general satisfaction with services, access to services, participation in treatment, quality of treatment received, cultural sensitivity, and outcomes.

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  • NH Resource Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders

    The New Hampshire Resource Center for Autism offers Academic Initiatives: Ph.D. Program: Preparing Leadership Personnel in the Area of Educating and Supporting Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders (Project LEAD); a Graduate Certificate in Autism Spectrum Disorders; Research Initiatives: the Early markers and Beyond Access Projects; and Professional Development and Technical Assistance: Jumpstart; Communication Skill Builders; On-Site Technical Assistance and Training; Annual Autism Summer Institute; and the Autism National Committee Bookstore.

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  • StatsRRTC: The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Statistics and Demographics

    StatsRRTC: The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Statistics and Demographics aims to improve knowledge about and access to existing data, and generate the knowledge needed to improve future disability data collection and dissemination. It is our goal to foster evidence-based decision making by people with disabilities and their families, advocates, policymakers, program administrators, service providers, and researchers by making data widely available and accessible.

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